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		sweetjuly on Aug 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the... This would require specifying a cache line size in the ABI, which is a somewhat odd uarch detail to bubble up. While 64-bytes is conventional for large application processors and has been for a long time, I wouldn't want to make it a requirement.

Dylan16807 on Aug 28, 2024 [–]

It's definitely worth analyzing though.

See how big of a block you need to get 90% of the compression benefit, etc.

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